Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart Udall is dead at 90. [1]